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Charlotte Gray

Year:
Duration:
121 min
Genres:
Drama | Romance | Thriller | War
IMDB rate:
6.5
Director:
Gillian Armstrong
Awards:
1 win & 4 nominations
Details
Country: UK
Release Date: 2002-02-22
Filming Locations: Midi-Pyrénées, France
Earnings
Opening Weekend: $72,806 (USA) (30 December 2001)
Gross: $668,140 (USA) (17 February 2002)
Cast
Actor
Character
Cate Blanchett
Charlotte Gray
James Fleet
Richard Cannerly
Abigail Cruttenden
Daisy
Charlotte McDougall
Sally
Rupert Penry-Jones
Peter Gregory (as Rupert Penry Jones)
Robert Hands
Borowski
Tom Goodman-Hill
Business Man at Party
Michael Fitzgerald
Business Man at Party
Hugh Ross
Psychiatrist
Martin Oldfield
Assault Course Instructor
Nicholas Farrell
Mr. Jackson
Mike Burnside
Morse Code Instructor
Damian Myerscough
Gun Instructor
Miranda Bell
Female Instructor
Angus Wright
Agent
Lewis Crutch
Andre
Mathew Plato
Jacob (as Matthew Plato)
Billy Crudup
Julien Levade
Charlie Condou
Auguste
Victoria Scarborough
Claire Monceau
David Birkin
Jean-Paul
John Pierce Jones
Monsieur Monceau
Louise Vincent
Madame Cariteau
Michael Mellinger
Old Man Roudil
Carole Barbier
Housewife
Françoise Heraut
Housewife (as Francoise Heraut)
Severine Bouche
Housewife
Rosanna Lavelle
Sophie the Telephonist
Anton Lesser
Renech
John Hug
Bartender
John Benfield
Loque
Robert Shannon
Bernard
Michael Gambon
Levade
Ron Cook
Mirabel
John Bennett
Gerard
Mathias Jung
German Sergeant
Jean-Pierre Rouane
Mayor
Jack Shepherd
Pichon
Erich Redman
German Corporal
Wolf Kahler
Oberlieutnant Lindermann
Maurice Yeoman
German Soldier
Robin Pearce
Gendarme Claude
Amy Marston
Pregnant Mother
James Embree
German Soldier (uncredited)
John Perkins
German Guard (uncredited)
Wil Röttgen
German Commander (uncredited)
Mike Savva
German Soldier (uncredited)
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Trivia
The true story of Nancy 'White Mouse' Wake inspired Sebastian Faulks' 1999 novel Charlotte Gray upon which the film is based. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Mrs Wake was "a truly remarkable individual whose selfless valour and tenacity will never be forgotten". Born in New Zealand but raised in Australia, she is credited with helping hundreds of Allied personnel escape from occupied France. Working as a journalist in Europe, she interviewed Adolf Hitler in Vienna in 1933 and then vowed to fight against his persecution of Jews. After the fall of France in 1940, Mrs Wake became a French Resistance courier and later a saboteur and spy - setting up escape routes and sabotaging German installations, saving hundreds of Allied lives. She worked for British Special Operations and was parachuted into France in April 1944 before D-Day to deliver weapons to French Resistance fighters. At one point, she was top of the Gestapo's most wanted list. "Freedom is the only thing worth living for. While I was doing that work, I used to think it didn't matter if I died, because without freedom there was no point in living," Ms Wake once said of her wartime exploits. It was only after the liberation of France that she learned her husband, French businessman Henri Fiocca, had been tortured and killed by the Gestapo for refusing to give her up. She was Australia's most decorated servicewoman, and one of the most decorated Allied servicewomen of World War II. France awarded her its highest honour, the Legion D'Honneur; she also received Britain's George Medal, and the US Medal of Freedom. In 2004, she was made Companion of the Order of Australia. She died in London on August 8, 2011 aged 98.
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The schoolteacher played by Anton Lesser was called "Benech" in the novel, but the small French town in which much of the movie was based had a popular mayor whose name was similar, so officials asked that the name be changed. He's called "Renech" in the final version.
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The Scottish Viaduct shown in the first scene is the Glenfinnan viaduct, it has also featured in other films, notably the 'Harry Potter' series where it carries the Hogwart's Express.
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Goofs
In the opening shot of the train crossing the viaduct, the coaches are BR Mk1 ones, which were not built until the 1950's yet the interior shots of the train show LNER on the antimacassar, which would be correct.
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The German colors during the Nazi Regime were actually Black, White and Red. These were also the colors of the N.S.D.A.P. and were present on the shield of the German helmets of the Wehrmacht and all of the flags at this time. So the Bundesrepublik Deutschland colors of Black, Red and Yellow are not appropriate for the film.
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In the opening shot, a train carrying Charlotte to London is shown crossing a viaduct in the Scottish Highlands. The viaduct in question is the Glenfinnan viaduct, and in the distance you can see the Glenfinnan Monument to Bonny Prince Charlie. The train is clearly traveling North, away from London.
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Quotes
Psychiatrist: Of these three, which in your view is the most important: Faith, hope or love?
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Charlotte Gray: Tomorrow, I'm dirty down there. We'll be together tomorrow when I'm clean, you want me clean right?
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Charlotte Gray: There's something I've been meaning to tell you.
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Photos from cast
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